MARIO KIEFER

"I do know that the slickest way to lie is to tell the right amount of truth at the right time — and then shut up.” ~ the character Jubal Harshaw in Robert A. Heinlein’s, ‘Stranger In A Strange Land’. #FavoriteQuotes

“It is a bad sign when the people of a country stop identifying themselves with the country and start identifying with a group. A racial group. Or a religion. Or a language. Anything, as long as it isn’t the whole population… Before a revolution can take place, the population must lose faith in both the police and the courts.” ~ Robert Heinlein, “Friday” #FavoriteQuotes

"Halloween was confusing. All my life my parents said, 'Never take candy from strangers.' And then they dressed me up and said, 'Go beg for it.'" – Rita Rudner #FavoriteQuotes #Halloween

“I’ve found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much . . . because it’s the only thing that’ll make it stop hurting.” ~ the character Valentine Michael Smith in “Stranger In A Strange Land”, Robert Heinlein #FavoriteQuotes

”The law of unintended consequences, often cited but rarely defined, is that actions of people—and especially of government—always have effects that are unanticipated or unintended. Economists and other social scientists have heeded its power for centuries; for just as long, politicians and popular opinion have largely ignored it.” ~ Rob Norton #FavoriteQuotes

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” ~CS Lewis #FavoriteQuotes

“The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.” ~character Wilhelm Stekel in The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salnger #FavoriteQuotes

“Labor not unwillingly, nor without regard to the common interest, nor without due consideration, nor with distraction; nor let studied ornament set off thy thoughts, and be not either a man of many words, or busy about too many things.” ~ Marcus Aurelius, Meditations #FavoriteQuotes

"I distinctly remember, Addison, crossing you off of my guest list. What are you doing here?" Margo Channing in All About Eve #FavoriteQuotes

"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated." -Confucius #FavoriteQuotes

“I am always saying ‘Glad to’ve met you’ to somebody I’m not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.” ~ Holden Caufield, (J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye) #FavoriteQuotes

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” ~ George Orwell, Animal Farm #FavoriteQuotes

"I assure you from a God's Olympian perch that government is a shared myth. When the myth dies, the government dies.” ~ Leto Atreides II to Moneo in “God Emperor of Dune” by Frank Herbert #FavoriteQuotes

"The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help." ~ Ronald Reagan #FavoriteQuotes

“Really loving this uneducated, mid-evil [sic] pitch fork carrying, burn the witch at the stake mentality though. The world needs more of that.” ~ Megan Fox #FavoriteQuotes

"We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it." ~ William Faulkner #FavoriteQuotes

"In my estimation, more misery has been created by reformers than by any other force in human history. Show me someone who says, "Something must be done!" and I will show you a head full of vicious intentions that have no other outlet. What we must strive for always! is to find the natural flow and go with it." ~The Reverend Mother Taraza, Conversational Record, BG File GSXXMAAT9 (Frank Herbert, Heretics of Dune) #FavoriteQuotes

The “way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.” ~ Parents Involved, 551 U.S. at 748 (plurality opinion). #FavoriteQuotes

“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.” ~ Frank Herbert, Dune #FavoriteQuotes

“It’s funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they’ll do practically anything you want them to.” ~ J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye #FavoriteQuotes